I am writing in support of the amicus curiae brief submitted by Professor Ariella Aïsha Azoulay of Brown University for the full restitution of the daguerreotypes of Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia, currently held by Harvard University, to their familial descendant, Tamara Lanier.
Marianne Hirsch
Marianne Hirsch writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations, combining feminist theory with memory studies in global perspective. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust, Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference, both co-authored with Leo Spitzer; and the co-edited volume Women Mobilizing Memory. Hirsch teaches Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.